Cyber Business

Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions, facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide.

Job Description

We require an Electronics Team Leader to join our Hardware function, where you will play a pivotal role in the technical leadership of a talented team of Hardware Engineers, specialising in both analogue and high-speed digital electronic hardware. You will provide invaluable hardware expertise and knowledge across a number of innovative research, development and production programmes that range in value from tens of £k to several £m.

Responsible for / Key responsibilities

• Specify, design and prove/verify digital and analogue electronic hardware in order to deliver high quality electronic hardware that meets the requirements in a timely manner and within budget.
• Perform design calculations and carry out simulations using industry standard tools, and prototype as required, in order to estimate performance, identify high-risk areas and ensure high quality designs that require minimal re-design.
• Develop and test/verify electronic hardware according to the hardware development process.
• Estimate time and effort required for electronic hardware activities and deliver to these time and effort estimates to ensure cost and schedule adherence.
• Provide technical direction and exert technical influence across multiple projects, such that the optimal approach, architecture and design are selected.
• Work with production test to ensure designs are suitable for volume production. Support production to assist them with the rapid debugging and resolution of electronic hardware issues encountered in order to minimise production delays.
• Work constructively with other team members, actively contributing to design reviews, to ensure a collaborative working environment.
• Explains technically complex concepts clearly to less technical/involved parties.
• Manage the security of information as defined in the Security manual to ensure compliance with Government regulations.

Role requirements

Essential:

• Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, SC security clearance.
• Willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance.
• Able to travel occasionally to other Ultra sites, suppliers and test houses.

Qualifications / skills required

Essential:

• Degree in an Electrical or Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience of one or more of the following;
• Experience of high-speed digital designs that include processors and programmable devices
• Experience of analogue circuit design and switched-mode power supply design
• Able to design reliable power supplies that meet requirements and analyse against all input and output conditions across temperature, and estimate performance accurately.
• Competent with schematic capture tools and understands how to constrain layout using rules/classes/groups.
• Must have developed large, complex designs requiring multi-layer PCBs (and PCB stack-up design).

Desirable:

• Appreciation of design and test for EMC and TEMPEST.
• Experience of DOORS, PADS and/or PSpice.

Our Team

We trust and empower each other; we love to celebrate success and we win as a team. Together, we embrace change and we’re never satisfied until we’ve done what we said we’d do